It’s like art Christmas in the Dallas area this autumn. The much anticipated Gaultier exhibit is here; Tony Cragg sculptures fill the Nasher; and the Kimball is hosting the only American exhibition of Caravaggio and His Followers in Rome. To top it all off, one of the most interesting and…
Much of art is about the intangible: anger, hate, joy, hope, ideas, myths, fantasies, the love of a person or thing and fear of the future. So it’s no surprise that ghost stories are a deep well for artistic creation. These stories wrap numerous ideas about death, the afterlife and…
Love makes you do crazy things. Romeo and Juliet sacrificed themselves for one another. Cyrano de Bergerac, well, he gave up his girl to another man. Army Captain Silvio? He disguises himself over and over again to win over his one, true love. Join him in 19th century Padua, Italy,…
Stop-motion animation makes us think of the chunky clay cartoon, Gumby, or the simple waddling paper cutouts used to animate the television show Southpark. We wouldn’t have considered stop-motion to be an elegant form of animation, but artist Qiu Anxiong has created two narrative movies with the animation technique that…
In 1968 Roman Polanski produced a bit of magic that remains one of the best pieces of film to combine the quiet and the horrific. Now, before you say that we should never comment on his work, Rosemary’s Baby was filmed and released before both the Manson Family’s murder of…
The new musical version of Edna Ferber’s Giant, about a mid-century West Texas oil-and-ranch family, won’t open at Dallas Theater Center until January. But to prime the pump, the theater, ATTPAC and the Dallas Film Society are hosting a free screening of the 1956 epic movie of the same name…
Welcome to another edition of Geek-Offs, where you’ll find the perfect distractions to help you muddle your way through hump day each week. We’re a big fan of Armor Games around here, as if you couldn’t tell. They’re the purveyors of some of our favorite Geek-Off games from the past…
“I want to share some advice from my grandmother,” author Alice Hoffman told the female-dominated audience at Tuesday night’s Arts and Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art, co-sponsored by the Dallas Holocaust Museum. Hoffman, wearing flats, glasses perched on her nose, reached into her bag for some papers…
Over the past week, Unfair Park has racked up a number of recaps in the wake of Occupy Wall Street in Dallas. There was the march, and–of course–Infowars host Alex Jones’ protest on the Dallas Federal Reserve on Friday. While that’s going on, which it totally still is, here’s a…
I give The Fatal End three-and-a-half rotting bones out of a possible five. It’s in the West End so it’s a short drive, and that’s nice. I’m not big on commuting for terror. It’ll scare you in some sections and startle the shit out of you in others. I will…
Since Silence of the Lambs, there’ve been dozens of trashy Hollywood attempts at remaking the success behind the brooding, dark serial killer thriller. They’ve all been punch-yourself-in-the-nuts bad. Except for Se7en. You don’t forget Se7en. Who can: there’s a scene where you see a knife attached to a dildo [shudder]…
In a big cast of hot young actors, two of the stars of WaterTower Theatre’s current production of Spring Awakening are sizzling standouts: Adam Garst, a 2010 Baylor theater grad in only his second role on a local stage, and Kayla Carlyle, who’s been acting and singing professionally in Dallas…
On Saturday, October 22, Knox Street is hosting its first ever “Art of Knox” street festival. The event is being promoted as a celebration of all the different art forms the Knox neighborhood has to offer What art forms, you say? Well, there’ll be Knox street restaurants hosting wine tastings…
They wield trash cans, sling chairs and toss two-by-fours. They have names like Nasty Boy and Tiny Terminator. They’re midget wrestlers. The Extreme Midget Wrestling Foundation is putting on The Baddest Little Show on Earth Saturday night at the Turkey Creek Bar & Grill in Alvarado. Like their taller, over-muscled,…
Besides having more than one plate of fried chicken skin at the State Fair of Texas, there are some good scares in Dallas for Halloween. The events range from family-friendly strolls through autumnal gardens to holy-shit-that-zombie’s-gonna-eat-me scary. Luckily, we’ve culled those events in one happy place for you over in…
Last night brought us the premiere of The A-List Dallas on the gay-centric network Logo. It’s the new edition of a franchise that began in New York City and follows the lives of five gay men and one straight woman in the same social circle. And, unlike its distant second…
Irritation and pity are not the expressions I imagined a shark would wear upon being captured or killed. But that seems like precisely the expression it has in Dallas and Union Valley, Texas artist Pamela Henderson’s piece “One of Eight part of the series Ellipsis and Hatchet Acrylic.”Three people, presumably…
Thus far, we’ve featured films from Carpenter, Craven, Cronenberg, Hooper and other masters of Horror but no month-long celebration of all that is scare-tastic would be complete without one name synonymous with the genre: Raimi. The Evil Dead trilogy’s impact and influence is immeasurable (spoiler alert: so much so that…
Outside of Murray Street Coffee Shop in Deep Ellum a neon spray painted mannequin sits, chained to the base of a tree. Aurora is spelled out across her chest and right leg in stickers, and a presumably once legible date sits across her upper abdomen. There’s a QR code smack-dad…
[Editor’s note: This post is best when read with the music from the haunted house’s website playing in the background.] A nimble devil beat-boxes from behind a fiery face at the Ross Avenue entrance gates while another cloaked in red busts hinge-jointed moves that would make Michael Jackson proud and…
When I heard the Women’s Museum was closing, I felt a deep sense of…culpability. It was one of those places I always intended to go. I went when it opened, and possibly once more (or possibly not), but never again. Even when it had an exhibit of Annie Leibovitz photos,…
While in town promoting another film, Gerard Butler gave us a little preview of his character in Movie 43 — a feature film comprised of various comedic shorts directed by Brett Ratner, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn, Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and other Hollywood heavy hitters of comedy. The film features…
